XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Red Ribbon Award ceremony with Peter Piot and Lars Olof Kallings. Ban-Ki Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, holds a speech about stigma and discrimination of people living with HIV/AIDS.

M.D. Mervyn Silverman is one of the pioneers in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Here he talks about the shifts of topics on the International AIDS Conferences between 1985 and 2008, about the so called San Francisco Model of AIDS care, and about the closing of the Bathhouses.